Robert Nikobin

Coldplay em Buenos Aires.

Brazilian President: 🇺🇸🇧🇷 Cuba has problems, but they are the problems of the Cuban people. It is not a problem for Lula, for Claudia, or for Trump—it is a problem for the Cuban people.

I thought about doing this without any jokes, something I've never done here in 23 years, to impress upon people how much different I feel this issue is from any I have ever covered.

Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story ft.trib.al/0rAYtTi

Brazilian President Lula: Cuba has problems, but they are the problems of the Cuban people. It is not a problem for Lula, for Claudia, or for Trump—it is a problem for the Cuban people. Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives.

BREAKING: 🇧🇾🇺🇸🇨🇳 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Donald Trump showed the world that the United States is “not that powerful.” “If the Americans couldn’t handle Iran, then they should not mess with China, they will never be able to deal with that kind of power.”

Iran says enriched uranium "not going to be transferred," denying a claim by President Trump that the Islamic Republic had agreed to hand it over. cbsn.ws/4vDDaBj

🚨 JUST IN PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS: “THE BLOCKADE IS GOING TO REMAIN, AND UNFORTUNATELY WE’LL HAVE TO START DROPPING BOMBS AGAIN.” 👀

As Carl Jung put it, "Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health." Yet most people instinctually avoid pain. This is true whether we are talking about building the body (e.g., weight lifting) or the mind (e.g., frustration, mental struggle, embarrassment, shame)--and especially true when people confront the harsh reality of their own imperfections. #principleoftheday

Most people look at wars as isolated events. I look at them as part of a Big Cycle that has repeated many times, so for me watching what is happening is like watching a movie I've seen many times before. What we’re seeing now with Iran and the battle of the Strait of Hormuz is part of that cycle and is connected to and will have big implications for what happens all over the world.  I explore these issues with those who run governments, geopolitical experts, and people around the world, and almost all agree that it will have big consequences for the monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order. That is why I believe it is important to see the war with Iran as part of a greater world war and see to how it is evolving as a big cycle.  I created this condensed five-minute animation to provide an overview of these patterns and the cause-and-effect relationships behind them. For a deeper understanding, I have linked the full 45-minute video, “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order,” in the comments.

"The international order is crumbling into disarray," says Chinese leader Xi Jinping. After peace talks between the US and Iran floundered, world leaders are rushing to meet with Xi, signaling growing expectations for China to be a credible force for peace bloom.bg/4cBojih

🛑🇸🇦SAUDI ABANDONS TRUMP🇺🇸🛑 After losing close allies in Europe, Trump has just lost the closest ally in the middle east, "Saudi Arabia". "The era of relying on the US is over. How can Trump protect others when he cannot even protect his own country?"- Saudi FM Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

Donald Trump sees ideology as weakness. He thinks making money is all that really counts. If he keeps following the model he stumbled into in Venezuela, reality will prove him wrong economist.com/leaders/2026/0…

The reality is this: The US-Israel-Iran war is just part of a world war that we are in and that isn’t going to end anytime soon.

I will start off by wishing you well in these challenging times and by saying that the picture I paint in the following observations is not the picture I wish to be true; it is the picture that I believe to be true based on what I have learned and what the indicators I use to objectively see things now suggest is true.

عباس عراقچی در شبکه‌های اجتماعی نوشت: «در چارچوب آتش‌بس در لبنان، عبور تمامی کشتی‌های تجاری از تنگه هرمز برای مدت باقی‌مانده از آتش‌بس، به‌طور کامل باز اعلام می‌شود.» لینک خبر: bbc.in/489yFo5

"IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK YOU!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

☢️🇺🇸🇮🇷Scoop: U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran, according to two U.S. officials and two additional sources briefed on the talks. @MarcACaputo and I wrote for @axios axios.com/2026/04/17/ira…

Trump recognizes that he doesn’t really know where he’s going in Iran, so he’s looking to make a deal to get out. There’s no strategy, his political wellbeing is at stake.

UPDATE: 4 Chinese cargo planes reportedly switched off their transponders and landed in Iran within the last 48 hours.

the conventional wisdom was that a destabilizing war in the oil-producing heart of the middle east would badly hurt china. it hasn’t worked out that way. so far, china is weathering the war with iran better than many of its neighbors and looks set to emerge stronger. gzeromedia.com/by-ian-bremmer…